Arigatou!

Thanks to all the Ichibaners who have pledged to our 2013 - Year Of The Snake Fundraising Marathon!  We reached our goal!!!

Ichiban All-Stars include William T in NY, Stephanie C in Boise, our own Bill Kelly, Paul T in Ma, Eugene R in Jersey City, Carmen S in Philly, Michael F in Brooklyn, Justin C in Brooklyn, Sebastian V in Canada, Keenan P in Brooklyn, Erick Z in NYC, Joe R in NYC, Paul H in Canada, Anna A in Brooklyn, Mark E in Canada, Vito D in Canada, Station Manager Ken, last week's co-host, Chris T!, Give The Drummer Radio's Doug Schulkind, our own Terre T, Eva Z in Brooklyn, Wasted T in Brooklyn, Andrew S in NJ, Kelly H in Canada, John T in beautiful Burbank, California, Greg G in Georgia, Jonathan L in Ca, Matthew C in Ky, Dan M in Sea Bright, NJ, Tania B in Somerville, Ma, Steven Rk in Arlington, VA, Laura B in Brooklyn, Thomas P in Sweden, Mike D in Palm Harbor, Fla, Brian D in Chicago, John S in Kingston, NY, our own Irene Trudel, Gaylord Fields, Rex Doane and Kevin Nutt, Arjan P in the Netherlands, Holly in Durham, NC, Andy R in Greeneville, TN, Chris H in Hackensack, Chris P in the UK August G in NYC and Colin M from Austria.  You guys rule!!

"Fanilla Fudge"

A while back, a nice woman named Debbi* contacted me at work about buying her son's Star Wars toys, and mentioned that she also had some comics and trading cards from her childhood. I bought what she had, and in our conversation, she mentioned that she thought that she had some more Monkees memorabilia packed away, which I urged her to bring in. A few weeks later, she returned with a batch of cool stuff... two partial fan club kits that had belonged to her and her sister (which, combined, mad one near-complete one), some newsletters, some of the mail-order-only magazines from Tiger Beat, and a batch of trading cards. Also among them was this oddly mislabeled ticket for a Vanilla Fudge show in her hometown of Simsbury, Connecticut. I'm not really a fan of their sludgy sound, even if they were produced by the late, great Shadow Morton, but this is pretty cool. Thanks, Debbi!

Here they are on the Ray Anthony Show. I'd like to

imagine that they closed the show by jamming with 

Ray on an extended version of Bunny Hop, but I

expect that that was not what happened.

*No relation to our Glorious Leader.

Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands 11

You could win this great comp when you pledge to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban today!!

Mr. Gasser And The Weirdos

Thanks to our pals over at Sundazed Records for donating these limited edition "Black Friday" LPs to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban fundraising marathon!  Rods n' Ratfinks & Surfink!

Sharkskin Louis Jordan

"Giving the impression of an unwanted backstage "John," bubble-eyed bandleader Louis Jordan is about to be expelled by resolute dancing twins, Joyce and Jean Spencer, as trio hams it up between performances at the Tivoli Theater in Chicago."  Jet magazine, 1959.

Ray Price & Wanda Jackson

This remarkable photo of Ray Price and Wanda Jackson comes to us from the Nudie Cohn Facebook page.  Thanks for sharing.

Mother's Worry

You could win a sealed "Mother's Worry" model kit from 1996, if you pledge $15 or more to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban fundraising marathon before Sunday!

Weird-Ohs On Wheels!

Thanks to J.R. Williams for donating this collection of Motor Monsters to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban fundraising marathon!  You could win it if you pledge $15 or more before this Sunday's show.  Preview some tracks here.

Rockabilly Rebel

Thanks to the fine folks at Sunbury Press for donating this prize to Ichiban!  You could win it, if you pledge today.  You can also order signed copies from their website!

Ichiban One-Liners Volume 4

You can help keep us streaming 24 hours a day when you make a pledge to WFMU!  $75 gets you this CD with artwork by Takeshi Tadatsu.

Elijah & the Ebonites - Hot Grits (Girls Raised In The South)

Two Hour Excursion To Nowhere

Pledge your support for the old noise, win fabulous prizes!!  1-3 PM.

Big Daddy Roth Month: The Orbitron-- Lost and Found!

Note the tricolor headlight array, mimicking the dot pattern on a color television screen. 

   The Orbitron was always a favorite of mine among Big Daddy's cars, but I'm apparently in the minority. There was never a model kit, slot car, or Hot Wheel, either in 1965 or since, and unlike the Outlaw and the Mysterion, it didn't even get its own Car Craft cover, as you can see.

Only approximately 1/12 of the cover? An insult!

 It had a short life on the car show circuit, and Ed sold it to Darryl Starbird in 1967 for $750. He sold it it to someone in Texas shortly thereafter, and it was lost to history for decades (one story holds that around 1973 it was in the hands of a teen-ager who actually drove it to school!). In recent years, it was tracked down in Ciudad Juarez, and it's since been restored to its original glory. Read the story here, and for more photos, click here.

This fellow is no relation, but he's also cool. Learn more about him here.